Thomas Sowell Quotes
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'
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I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'
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The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.
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Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
